| drakonslayor | Hi, wondering if anyone here can help me out | 10:24 |
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| Tribaal | drakonslayor: if you expose your problem, maybe we can determine that :) | 11:53 |
| drakonslayor | been trying to extract a public gpg key with seahorse and for the life of me have no idea how | 11:55 |
| drakonslayor | apparently older versions had a simple button... but for some reason they got rid of that | 11:56 |
| Tribaal | drakonslayor: how about "gpg --export --armor <keyID>" ? | 11:57 |
| Tribaal | or is that not what you ask? | 11:58 |
| drakonslayor | is that how you extract the public key? | 11:58 |
| drakonslayor | lol | 11:58 |
| drakonslayor | sorry new to the whole thing | 11:58 |
| Tribaal | drakonslayor: that is how you get a public key block yeah | 11:58 |
| Tribaal | what are you trying to "extract the public key" for? | 11:59 |
| Tribaal | if you want to i.e. host it on your blog, then that's what you should put up (gpg --export --armor <keyid>) | 11:59 |
| drakonslayor | to give to my friend so he can decrypt my encrypted data | 12:00 |
| Tribaal | ah | 12:00 |
| Tribaal | so, what I said is one option | 12:00 |
| Tribaal | the other option is to use a keyserver | 12:00 |
| Tribaal | uploading your public key there makes it searchable | 12:00 |
| Tribaal | but before you do, you must generate a revocation certificate if you haven't already | 12:01 |
| Tribaal | you *MUST* | 12:01 |
| Tribaal | since it's impossible to delete keys once uploaded | 12:01 |
| Tribaal | :) | 12:01 |
| Tribaal | drakonslayor: wait a second - if you give your public key to your friend he can *encrypt secret messages to you* | 12:02 |
| Tribaal | but he cannot decrypt what you encrypt | 12:02 |
| Tribaal | you need *his* public key for that :) | 12:03 |
| drakonslayor | yeah sorry i said that the wrong way around :P | 12:03 |
| Tribaal | oh ok :) | 12:03 |
| drakonslayor | thanks | 12:03 |
| Tribaal | drakonslayor: don't hesitate to ping me if you need more help with gpg - I'll do my best :) | 12:04 |
| drakonslayor | thanks :) | 12:05 |
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